Protesting War

“Man Arrested Protesting War”,
was the headline,
or something,
the story didn’t make
the front page,

Protesters, marched,
against the opening
of a museum, a
display, vandalized,
red paint thrown
on the floor.

The famed Enola Gay,
was on display,
the one that dropped
the Atom bomb.

Then, I saw him,
nearly eighty years of age,
tears streamed down
his face, he was
the one, the vandal,

My thoughts would not stop,
obviously, of Asian descent,
his family or friends
might have been,

disintegrated, with not even a
body or fallen from
the fall out,

still the radiation, the pain,
war is hell and
I cried.

By Dan Hanosh taken from
The World Outside My Window
Warriors and War